{"product_id":"ajay-jennings-repeat-after-me","title":"Repeat After ME","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRepeat After ME is a collection of drawings that were composed in the latter half of 2023, a period in which Ajay Jennings was able to finally trace a pencil and marker across a page again following a cataclysmic ME\/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis \/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) relapse. Stuck in a seemingly never-ending spiral of poor health that kept Jennings bedbound, Ajay would sketch to pass the time and to remove himself from his body and illness – if only for a few moments in a day. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn doing so, these drawings would become Ajay’s mantras, monochromatic reminders to breath, meditate, to practice gratitude rather than to focus on what had been lost to an illness that had forcibly reshaped his life. Here, a series of flowers emerge in Jennings’ work; a thank you to a partner he feared he might lose through his illness, an ode to the friends and family who waited for Jennings to regain his independence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Repeat After ME is a series of mantras to repeat and hold onto during a ME\/CFS flare-up, depictions of a life lost and a lover gained. Repeat After ME is to talk about ‘me’; to share Jennings’ story and to spread awareness of ME\/CFS. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo accompany the original drawings, Ajay has produced a short-run single-colour artist book printed on Risograph, and all profits from the artist book and 50% of artwork sales will be donated to Emerge Australia (www.emerge.org.au) – a nationwide patient organisation providing services, evidence-based education, advocacy and research about ME\/CFS.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glom Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50148260413729,"sku":"9780648571834","price":22.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9650\/6913\/files\/AjayJennings-RepeatAfterME.png?v=1731558898","url":"https:\/\/shop.terrain.earth\/products\/ajay-jennings-repeat-after-me","provider":"TERRAIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}